Interview on India and Thailand incidents
On India and Thailand incidents
Q: Do you think what happened in India and Thailand can also happen here?
Gordon: Yes. In fact, the Thais are merely taking a cue from us from EDSA 1 and 2. But they’re more aggressive, they have taken over the airports, that’s very serious. And the army is still not doing anything about it. I hope that for the sake of Thailand, I really don’t want a situation where the army always comes in and interferes in political action like this. It’s a very bad precedent.
Q: What could possibly trigger that? Could it be Cha-cha?
Gordon: Well, sometimes people remain quiet and docile and then something breaks. The unabashed attempt to try and change the Constitution … I’m glad it’s dead. I hear it’s dead. Many congressmen are taking heed, they’re withdrawing their signatures in Congress on the Cha-Cha bid. It really is untenable. It cannot be, to have the Congress act jointly and vote jointly is an impossibility because the Constitution has really delineated the time when Congress can act jointly and vote jointly, and that is only in the case of lifting Martial Law or habeas corpus.
